Smollett allegedly staged the attack because he was 'dissatisfied' with the $1 million salary

“I haven’t interviewed them, but I will ask you this,” said Gergagos.

“Why is it if they did this … why weren’t they indicted?”

“But doesn’t it just seem weird to you that you get allegedly attacked by two people who you know, and you don’t seem to recognize them, even though you claimed you fought back and they ran away, and I believe initially Mr. Smollett said one of them was white, or they were white,” said Cooper.

“Isn’t it just weird that you get allegedly attacked by two people you actually know who’ve actually been on ‘Empire’ that, who you have actually worked out with, and you don’t recognize them?”

“Yeah, but guess what?” Gergagos responded.

“I don’t know whether he made that statement but what I do know is when he was told that they have evidence against these two he refused to sign the complaint because he did not believe it.”

“I haven’t seen one piece of evidence, and they don’t have one piece of evidence that they’ve turned over that links Jussie to this. What they do have is a whale of a case … a great case against the two brothers.”

Last month, we reported that Smollett allegedly staged the attack because he was "dissatisfied" with the $1 million salary he receives for acting on the TV show "Empire."

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said during a press conference on Thursday that Smollett staged a hate crime because he wasn’t satisfied with the $1m a year he currently earns on the show and had been previously refused a pay rise.